Garoga Site

	Garoga Site
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Nearest city	Ephratah, New York
Area	4.5 acres (1.8 ha)
NRHP reference No.	80002613
Added to NRHP	July 22, 1980

Garoga Site is an archaeological site located at Ephratah in Fulton County, New York. It is also known as Las-7, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation Unique Site No. A035-04-0001. It is one of three Mohawk Indian village sites excavated by archaeologist Robert E. Funk in 1969–1970.^[2]

The site, dated to the 16th century, also known as Garogo, or Castle Hill, is "perched on a hilltop overlooking Caroga Creek." It was first excavated by Samuel Frey in the 1800s. William Ritchie and Robert Funk "identified a minimum of nine longhouses within the main village area and they also confirmed the location of a short double palisade that runs across the entrance to the village site."^[3] They estimated that the village might have held 700 people.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ ^a ^b Funk, Robert E.; Kuhn, Robert D. (2003). Three Sixteenth-Century Mohawk Iroquois Village Sites (book) (Museum Bulletin 503 ed.). New York State Museum, Albany NY. pp. 482pp. ISBN 1-55557-147-6.
^ The Archaeological Conservancy. "Garoga (New York)". Retrieved January 26, 2016.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[Funk-2] Funk, Robert E.; Kuhn, Robert D. (2003). Three Sixteenth-Century Mohawk Iroquois Village Sites (book) (Museum Bulletin 503 ed.). New York State Museum, Albany NY. pp. 482pp. ISBN 1-55557-147-6.

[3] The Archaeological Conservancy. "Garoga (New York)". Retrieved January 26, 2016.

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